The Analytical Imperative

Duncan Ross, Director Data Science

Analysis is the key to value

Thomas Bayes

1701-1761

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We need to stop pretending that size matters…

“People think we got big by putting big stores in small towns. Really we got big by replacing inventory with information”

Sam Walton, founder Walmart

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We need to beware of big data traps…

Source: xkcd.com

Correlation != Causation

We need more unicorns…

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@duncan3ross Source: Steve Coley of McKinsey

We need to do things differently…

Bring data together

Explain better

Work fasterfail faster

Be more creative

Doing more with dataIntroducing Hannah Underwood

Doing more with data: #data4good

@duncan3ross http://www.helpage.org/global-agewatch/

Doing more with data: How one organisation changed…

Working with NEETS

8 people

Examined data on progress

Found that things they did weren’t adding value

Changed what they did

Recruited a data scientist

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The journey continues

Ambition Lab Hackathon

November 29/30

Six locations

- Shoreditch, Sunderland, Swansea, Strathclyde, Salford

- Coventry

Data Scientists Wanted!

https://ambitionlabhack.eventbrite.co.uk/

Thank you

Seven Fun Things to do with MapReduceChris Hillman, Teradata

Monday 1535 Westimster

Using Data For EVILDuncan Ross, Teradata and Fran Bennett, Mastodon C

Tuesday 1315 Buckingham

Watch the DataKind UK DataDive videohttp://bit.ly/1946bVa